Arkhangelsk

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

A city of northwest Russia on the Northern Dvina River near its mouth on the White Sea. Although icebound much of the year, it is a leading port and can generally be opened to navigation by icebreakers. Population: 352,000.

Sutyagin, a 45-year-old researcher of arms control and nuclear weapons, was hastily moved from a prison colony in Kholmogory in the Arkhangelsk region Monday and taken to Moscow's Lefortovo prison, where authorities allowed relatives to visit him.